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A couple of rather good articles by Jason Beaird at sitepoint.com which I’ve only just come across. The first is titled “The Principles of Beautiful Web Design“, the second “The Principles of Beautiful Typography“.

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Regular expressions are very, very useful – but they can be pretty confusing at times, especially when they start to get complicated.

RegExr is a fantastic live previewing tool for checking that your regular expressions work as intended.

Thanks to Twitter user iotashan (via jakemarsh) for finding this gem of a web application.

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A friend pointed me in the direction of another colour generator a while back, and I only just found the link again. ColorToy 2.0 is a rather nifty Flash-based generator which takes an RGB or Hex input, and generates 8 complementary colours. Each swatch is also clickable, which is a nice touch.

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Posted in Computing, Programming. Popularity: 71% [?]